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Newspaper
Public Ledger
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Apr 16, 1761
Page
4
In a royal proclamation dated December 17 1759 at St James's London, William Faden is granted a license for sole printing publishing and vending of the Public Ledger. Subjects are forbidden to reprint abridge or publish the work under penalty.
Notice in the Public Ledger April 15 details auctions and private sales of ship cargoes and vessels. Entries cover sundry houses on London Bridge, Irish linens, the Snow William and Henry burden 150 tons, the Christopher burden 276 tons, and the Mutine burden 300 tons. Also listed are numerous lots, goods, wines, coffee, indigo, butter, and other items. Various notices request diversions, entertainments, pay to sea officers, models of ships, lost items, wanted ads, and employment inquiries. Shown also are payments, receptions, and public concerns with remarks on editorial policy. Ships entered April 14 include Anha Margaretta and Polly among others.
A page lists multiple auction opportunities including a house at Eaton Bray, a house in New Norfolk Street, and a Chelsea production sale with furniture, china, and utensils. Also advertised are a brick house near Epping Forest, a let notice for a Stoke Green house, a stolen silver quarting, and employment and relief pleas from a steward and distressed gentlewoman with four children.
A historical notice lists items for auction including leasehold messuages in Barnaby Street and Tooley Street Southwark, by candle sale of linens and various goods, plus a quarterly general court notice for the Birith Lying-in Hospital for married women.
Daily Advertiser lists an auction on April 15 by Austion for a Freehold dwelling house in Pill Mail with a chamber organ a landau a second hand town chariot and the Houthold Goods plate etc of the late Mr Richard Saunders Gentleman deceased.
Listing from Mewcasle Journal on April 11 noting a 260 ton burden freehold estate at Bainbridge near Askrng Yorkshire and Oak Wood and Ath Wood at Cawley Park Morpeth. Also mentions a freehold estate in Hexham parish and three fourth parts of Wingates and Nethe rton townships in Northumberland plus a house with closes of land near Nevwerte and a mill at Stella Durham.
In Hefleyside Northumberland 750 oak trees and a parcel of birch and alder trees are to be left. Also notices of a house between the Upper End of Gateshead and the Turnpike gate and a dwelling house in Westgate Street Newcastle record a public notice about property.
April 13 notice list includes 50 Hords Guadaloupe Sugars fit for the Scale and various real estate items. It mentions the estate of the late Samuel White bankrupt of Ansford near Castle Cary, plus a capital messuage and land in Theverton Devonshire. Also listed are the Sloop La Latine of 80 tons at Dartmouth, several inns and farms across Devonshire and Somerset, and creditors or debtors of Matthew Palmer of Plymouth.
The creditors of Edward Bamford late of Dilborne Staffordshire and the debtors of Foliot Sandford late of Shrewsbury Mercer are warned. Notice is given to them regarding their claims and liabilities in the matter of estate administration and related proceedings.
Cobventey Wercury lists several houses in Jordan Well Ward including Bishop-street Anglith-lane Spon-causeway Gosford-street Much Park-street and near St Johns Church and a messuage at Low in Warwickshire. The notice is dated April 13 and concerns real estate within the county.
A fragmented 19th century style stock table shows Bank Stock values around 134½ to 1756 with various annuities and India entries. It lists Exchequer bills and Navy Bills, perpetuals and bonds, along with lottery tickets and long annuity references. Reads like a broker’s or exchange page with scattered fractional prices and cryptic abbreviations.
A listing of exchange rates from major European cities and ports with gold and silver prices per coin, bar, and small lot. Includes daily high water at London Bridge and times, alongside various city quotations and bullion figures for the day.
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